Health Humanities Pedagogy Program
Marion Quirici's work studies the narratives cultures create to justify inequality on the basis of disability. Modern democracies fail to uphold their promises of “justice for all” when citizenship and rights are bound up with notions of intelligence and ability. Her doctoral dissertation, “Fitness for Freedom: Disability and Irish Modernism,” argues that certain Irish modernists pushed for a greater appreciation of human vulnerability and weakness, directly subverting nationalist claims of racial fitness and purity. She also writes about autism and neurodiversity. She worked with Janel Thompson to enhance the course English 112 at Durham Tech with health humanities content.
